Who We Are

A democratic and non-hierarchical collective of radical economists founded Dollars & Sense in 1974. Today, D&S is still a democratic workplace. In addition to our four paid staff members, our volunteer Editorial Collective, compprising economists, journalists, and activists, helps set editorial policy and produce our magazine and books. Collective members write for Dollars & Sense, and the collective meets weekly to read submissions and edit forthcoming articles. The meetings regularly spark spirited discussions of economic topics! Dollars & Sense also has a Board of Associates, who are less active than collective members but help support the organization.

Dollars & Sense Staff

Alejandro Reuss, magazine co-editor, is a historian and economist. He has been a member of the D&S collective for nearly 15 years, has served on the editorial committee of NACLA Report on the Americas, and has been a staff member and board member of Bikes Not Bombs (Boston). He has graduate degrees in history from Tufts University and in economics from the University of Massachusetts, and also teaches at the Labor Relations and Research Center at UMass-Amherst. His writings for D&S include the article series Keynes and the Current Crisis and EconoFAQs.

Chris Sturr, magazine co-editor, joined the staff in July of 2005, after several years on the D&S collective. He taught at the college level for several years; his research focused on the prison crisis and the history of prison reform in the United States. His media activism has included reporting for WMBR (MIT's radio station), participating in the Boston Independent Media Center, and co-producing a weekly two-hour radio program, Unwelcome Guests. His current projects include coordinating the Political Economy of Prisons article series and improving the D&S website. Chris's articles in Dollars & Sense include Fidelity and Genocide, "Military Spending and the Cost of the Wars" (July/August, 2006), The Penal Welfare State, and (with Amy Offner) Flattening Appalachia.

De'En Tarkpor, Office & Circulation Manager, joined the D&S staff in 2015. She was previously Finance and Human Resources Director at United for a Fair Economy. Before that, she worked as a bookkeeper at several small businesses in the Boston area.

Some members of the Dollars & Sense Collective:

Nina Eichacker earned her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2014. Her dissertation explored financial liberalization and the European financial crisis. She is currently a Lecturer in Economics at Bentley University in Waltham, Mass., where she teaches Macroeconomics, Money and Banking, Monetary Policy, Comparative Economics and other subjects.

Peter Kolozi is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Bronx Community College. He earned his Ph.D. from the City University of New York Graduate Center in 2011. His research interests include political ideologies, social movements, globalization and pedagogical approaches to the study of comparative urban politics.

John Miller is a professor of economics at Wheaton College. He has been a visiting professor at the University of California and has served as an Economic Consultant to the Southeast Asia Office of Oxfam America. John is co-author of the books Economic Collapse, Economic Change: Getting to the Roots of the Crisis and Which Way to Grow? Poverty and Prosperity in Southeast Asia. His areas of interest include the Federal Reserve, unemployment, tax policy, and macroeconomic and budget issues. In addition to editing many editions of the best-selling Dollars & Sense anthology Real World Macro, John has written numerous articles for D&S including:
What's Good for Wal-Mart..., (Economic) Freedom's Just
Another Word for ... Crisis-Prone, Outing Alan Greenspan, Free, Free at Last and Recovery Denied.

Jawied Nawabi is Assistant Professor of Sociology, Economics, and International Politics at Bronx Community College. He earned his Ph.D. in Economic Sociology from The New School in 2014. His dissertation was on "The Socioeconomic Origins of the Developmental State," a comparative historical analysis of England, Spain, France, Brazil, India, and South Korea. His research agenda includes studying the roots of institutional development, global political economy, and sociology of state formation.

Daniel Schneider is currently a student at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Dan is also a freelance journalist whose work has been published in The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, The Boston Phoenix, VICE, In These Times, Spare Change News, The Patriot Ledger, Muckrock, The Deli NYC, and other publications. He joined the D&S collective in 2012. His most recent article for Dollars & Sense is The Worst Place in the U.S. to Be Black Is ... Wisconsin.

Zoe Sherman is Assistant Professor of Economics at Merrimack College. Her areas of specialization are Political Economy and U.S. Economic History. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2014. Zoe has written several articles for D&S, including
the cover story for our 40th anniversary issue, Are We Better Off Than We Were 40 Years Ago?

William Whitham is a doctoral student in History at Princeton University. His primary interest is late modern European intellectual history and its global context. Will joined the collective in 2015. He was previously an intern at D&S while an undergraduate at Harvard. He also earned a master's degree in Political Thought and Intellectual History from Trinity College, Cambridge University.

Jeanne Winner is an activist in the Boston area. She has been active in local organizations devoted to housing, labor, and welfare issues since the early seventies. Her undergraduate degree is in the History of Science. Her articles in D&S include The Social Relations of Health and Disease.

Thea Lee is Deputy Chief of Staff at the AFL-CIO, where she has also served as Policy Director and Chief International Economist. Previously, she worked as an international trade economist at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. and as an editor at Dollars & Sense. She received her bachelor's degree from Smith College and her master's degree in economics from the University of Michigan. She is co-author of A Field Guide to the Global Economy, published by the New Press. She serves on the State Department Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy, and the Board of Directors of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Amy Offner was the first book editor at D&S. She is currently Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research and teaching address the history of capitalism and political economy, empire and foreign relations, and social and intellectual history. She earned her Ph.D. at Columbia University. Among the many articles she has written for D&S is Innovative Labor Strategies: Ten Campaigns to Learn From.

Adria Scharf is currently director of the Richmond Peace Education Center, in Richmond, Va. She was a co-editor of D&S from 2002-2005. Before that, she worked as a senior researcher and trainer at Ownership Associates, Inc. Her writing has been published in Dollars & Sense, Left Business Observer, Journal of Employee Ownership Law and Finance, and Washington Housing Quarterly. Her many articles for the magazine include Space Wars: An Interview with Bruce Gagnon, and Scripted Talk: Employers control the speech of service workers.

Ramaa Vasudevan teaches economics at Colorado State University. She completed her Ph.D. in economics at the New School University in 2006. She answered a reader's query on the relationship between unemployment and inflation in the “Ask Dr. Dollar” column in the September/October 2006 issue of the magazine.